District Attorney Brooke Jenkins on Friday criticized a San Francisco Superior Court judge who released seven men accused of beating a man unconscious while robbing him as he walked with his fiancée and their infant child near Pier 39 last weekend.
Jenkins said in an interview that Judge Brian Hill’s decision to release the group of Sacramento-area residents without posting bail or submitting to electronic monitoring was one of the most “reckless decisions” she had seen and was “beyond the pale” — comments countered by defense attorneys for three of the men.
The defendants — Matthew Aval Taylor, 23; Jatrell Joseph Howard, 22; Emanuel Barajas-Brenes, 21; Anthony Lee Henson, 33; Johnatan Guzman-Lopez, 26; Rootrevion Deontez Gay, 23; and Ayden Jared Guzman, 22 — pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree robbery with allegations that they inflicted great bodily injury on the victim…